Teaching Quotes · Page 58

“Who you allow into your life, mind and heart are among the most important decisions you will ever make.”

— Bryant McGill

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

— Eliot Wigginton

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.

— Frederick Lenz

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

— Austin Kleon

His second cycle of teachings discusses the cosmology of the universes. But in his later years, he wrote the tantric texts.

— Frederick Lenz

“Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.”

— Bryant McGill

“The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?”

— William Badke

“If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.”

— Bryant McGill

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the…

— Matthew Arnold

It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings]…

— Thomas Jefferson

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of…

— Richard B. Livingston

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to…

— Brad Pitt

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative…

— John Dewey

If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be…

— Saint Ignatius

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat…

— Dave Willis

“Here's a resume of crucial knowledge you should have in today's world but universities are not providing: Financial - Not just on…

— Robin Sacredfire

I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.…

— Tenzin Palmo

There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to…

— James M Strock

There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and…

— Salmon P. Chase

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because…

— Orson Scott Card

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is…

— Robertson Davies

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go…

— Wendy Kopp

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student…

— Jay Parini

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

— Gregory Meeks

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide…

— Richard G. Scott

For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.

— M. C. Escher

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

— Morgan Llywelyn

“You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.”

— Bryant McGill

“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.”

— Tom Althouse

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

— John Maeda

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

— Dora Russell

Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.

— Parker J. Palmer

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure…

— Bell Hooks

Teaching is very important to me, and it has become more important as I get older.

— Alice Mattison

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

— Fred Dibnah

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

— Laurence Housman

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

— Fred W. Friendly